> A couple of weeks ago I brought an old 486 to work. I bought
> RedHat 5.1 and installed it. I downloaded an installed Msql and
I hope it was a late release of RH 5.1, as the early ones were
incredibly buggy, over 80 megabytes of patch files. I went back to
running RH 5.0. I might consider 5.2 after it has been out a while.
I have tried SuSE, a German brand, but their configuration tools
rewrite all the configuration files whenever you use them, so that any
tinkering you do is lost. This discourages learning and customization. I
find that unacceptable.
Yggdrasil will have a tremendous new release (or so they murmur,) in
about 60 days. They have been going to installfests to try it on
machines, and doing the kind of testing that Red Hat SHOULD have done on
5.1. We will see what we will see... I should have a beta soon.
> I have to get samba running so I can use it for a file server. I wonder
> if our mac users can use the linux as a file server. As it is now
> there is some problem for mac users on the NT.
And having provided all those wonderful services on your machine, when
it comes time for you to leave, you turn the machine off two days early,
or thereabouts, and wait for them to renew your contract... (Or buy your
machine.)
> I think this is a really interesting setup. I would sell the computer
> that is running linux for US$400 in a heartbeat. The software cost
> me just US$45 with tax. You really have to wonder why more
> people don't use linux.
Ignorance, brain washing via advertising, spifs, etc. But yes, it is
harder to install than turning on a stock machine having pre-installed
Woodnose 98. By the way, there are CD-ROM distributors that will sell it
to you for a lot less, sans manual and sans the sometimes useless licensed
Metro-X. I've never gotten Metro-X to run properly, but the freeware
X-Windows stuff is rather good, better than old Woodnose!
To those who haven't tried Linux, it might be worth doing so, though
it may take a month to get use to it if you are a really dyed in the wool
Windows user. Unix is a little harder to use, but a LOT more powerful! I
use my notebook machine as a portable web server wherever I go.
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